Mike Sellitto has taken
the book of jockey Edgar Prado and will represent the Hall of Fame
rider in New York while managing Kent Desormeaux’s book at Keeneland,
the veteran agent said April 5.
According to Sellitto, who has
represented Desormeaux since 2006, Prado will ride full-time in New York
but will likely ship in to ride select stakes races at Keeneland as he
has in the past. The Peruvian journeyman comes off a slow season
Gulfstream Park, where his win rate is just 7% for the meet and he ranks
13th in the standings that he topped in 2002 and 2005. Longtime agent
Bob Frieze had taken his book again this year after Prado, 43, had a
subpar 2010 represented by agent James Riccio Jr.
“We’ve been friends for a long time,
he’s a Hall of Fame jockey, and he has the work ethic of an 18-year-old
kid,” Sellitto said of Prado, who is a winner of more than 6,000 races
including the 2006 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I).
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